"Ah, sneeze! Ah, sneeze." Cao Shichu sneezed several times in a row. Zhichun was so frightened that he asked her quickly: "Master, what's wrong with you? Are you suffering from the cold? Let me make some medicine for you?"
"No, I'm fine. Someone is probably talking about me. By the way, when will Zhixia come back from the next village for medical treatment?" Cao Shichu asked. She had already trained two female disciples, Zhichun and Zhixia, so Cao Shichu could feel at ease and steal She was too lazy to treat ordinary diseases, so she only let two disciples use it to practice.
After that, she adopted three orphan girls and brought them back to work and learn medical skills. Her medical skills were so good that some people nearby thought of letting their own girls come and learn from her. However, Cao Shichu did not accept it. After all, she had It is difficult for girls in his family to focus on medical skills all their lives. They will probably study for a year or two and then go back to get married and have children. In this way, they will learn half a bucket of water. Cao Shichu is afraid that they will ruin his reputation. Their poor medical skills have harmed people, so they might as well take in helpless orphans. They have suffered the hardships of life and will try to seize them as long as they are given a chance.
"I'll probably be back in the evening. The woman next door has been giving birth to her baby for almost two days. She should have given birth today anyway." Zhichun replied. She has been with Cao Shichu for more than ten years and is a stable and reliable senior sister. Cao Shichu left almost everything at home and in the clinic to her.
"Master, that person from the Anyang Marquis Mansion in the capital came to see you at their house, but you didn't go. If they blame it, we have to find a way first." Zhichun said with some worry, she always It was like this. Every time a wealthy family in the capital came to ask Cao Shichu to see a doctor, and Cao Shichu refused, she would always worry for a while, for fear that those big shots would use some means to deal with them.
When Cao Shichu heard what she said, he sighed helplessly and said, "Zhichun, you are so worried at such a young age. You will grow old quickly. This is not the first time that your master and I have refused to come to see the powerful people in the capital." Okay, did you see when I was retaliated by them? Aren't we on good terms now? So, just keep your heart in your stomach, no matter what, I can keep the whole family safe and sound."
When Zhichun heard what she said, he immediately laughed and said, "Isn't this a problem left over from working as an errand in a wealthy family? I always worry about this and that."
"It's been so many years and your problem hasn't gone away?" Cao Shichu smiled. Zhichun's psychological shadow was quite deep. She comforted her and said, "Then you can think about it in another way. Apart from delivering babies, I don't go to people's homes to see doctors." , but it has also cured the diseases of many powerful female relatives. Even if I find out about a certain wealthy family, can't I still seek the asylum of those female relatives I have treated?"
Cao Shichu said that, but in fact she never thought about asking others to protect her. She only believed in herself.
But Zhichun suddenly became enlightened after hearing her words: "Master, you are right. There are many female relatives of wealthy families who have been friends with us over the years. If something really happens, we can still find someone to help."
After dispelling the eldest disciple's worries, Cao Shichu quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Cao Shichu's life was peaceful and smooth, but Xun Yiming's life was in dire straits every day. Even if there was no news about his sister, his grandparents and father actually reported Xun Linyuan as "died of a sudden illness" and started to deal with it directly. After the funeral, it was necessary to completely abandon Xun Linyuan, a disdainful descendant who did things like elopement that ruined the family tradition and brought darkness to the family.
Xun Yiming disagreed, but his objections were ineffective. His three elders directly asked their servants to hang up Bai Hao and send condolence messages to relatives and friends.
So after the funeral, Xun Linyuan was already dead in the eyes of outsiders. Xun Yiming still refused to give up and still searched for her in private, but everything was in vain.
Life must go on. Although Xun Yiming was worried about his sister, he loved himself more, so he did not go out to look for her in person. Instead, he stayed in the capital and devoted himself to his career.
In addition, he also has to worry about the issue of carrying on the family line. They have been married for six or seven years and have wives and concubines, but none of the women have ever been pregnant. It is obvious that the problem lies with him.
But he had invited many doctors to see him, but every doctor said that there was nothing wrong with his body and that of his wife and concubines. They just didn't know why he couldn't get pregnant. The doctors had to ask him to pay attention to replenishing his energy and not to overwork himself. Too much.
Xun Yiming not only had to worry about official matters every day, but also exhausted himself from family affairs. Even if his wife couldn't get pregnant, his biological father still wanted to cause trouble for him. Xun Xiu believed that his biological mother had poisoned him and made him unable to survive. Humanity, so he was angry with him, often insulted and ridiculed him, saying that his inability to be born was retribution and atonement for his mother's sins.
Every time Xun Yiming comes to this time, he always thinks of his previous life. In the life when Cao Shichu was his stepmother, his father had always been tolerant and calm. He had a smooth career in his official career, and he treated his brother and sister closely and lovingly. He was a true true father. Father is kind and son is filial, nothing like this life, where father is not father and son is not son, father and son turn against each other and want to fight each other to the death.
Why did it fall to this point? Xun Yiming wanted to say that this was an accident. Even without Cao Shichu as his stepmother, he could have climbed to the position he had in his previous life through his own efforts.
But the truth is, he can't.
In his previous life, he had a father who had a smooth official career to pave the way for him, a well-matched, virtuous and considerate wife who made him worry-free, a powerful father-in-law who promoted him, and a well-known sister in marriage... All of these things allowed him to rise to prominence smoothly. The essential.
But in this life, he only has a ruined father who can not pave the way for him, but will drag him down; he does not have a well-matched wife and a powerful father-in-law, but only a wife with an average family background and a father-in-law who cannot help him but has to pull him back. The beginning of his entry into the officialdom was not smooth. No one promoted him and he had no good reputation. Every step he took was difficult, even if he tried his best, it was all in vain.
Until he was in his forties, he was still a fifth-rank petty official, incomparable to the high-ranking ministers in his previous life. What made him even more depressed was that he never had children. He couldn't help but wonder if it was because of his previous life. He caused Cao Shichu to have a miscarriage and was unable to have a biological child of his own, so he was destined not to have a child of his own in this life, because this was retribution.
And his sister, after two years of elopement, was finally found by him in a Goulan Courtyard in a town. After she was found, it was impossible for Xun Linyuan to be her eldest lady. After all, she was "dead" long ago, not to mention her. Xun Yiming's grandparents and father were unwilling to accept the return of a daughter who had been a prostitute. Xun Yiming had no choice but to send her to the family temple for repair.
Coincidentally, that family temple happened to be the one where Cao Shichu stayed in his previous life. Sure enough, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, retribution for retribution.
